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Ch 11 Vocab &Things
Chapter 11 People, Places, Vocab. MTMS, Mr. O'Dell
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Jedediah Smith | in 1820 this American mountain man visited the San Gabriel Mission east of present-day Los Angeles (PAGE(S) 472) |
| Alamo | a small Texan force barricaded itself inside this mission and later all died (PAGE(S) 483) |
| Bear Flag Republic | new country created by a small group of Americans that seized the town of Sonoma north of San Francisco (PAGE(S) 496) |
| Columbia River | the United States based its claim on the Oregon Country on Robert Gray's exploration of this river (PAGE(S) 471) |
| Davy Crockett | in 1835 lost his seat in Congress; left Tennessee and headed to Texas; died at the Battle of the Alamo (PAGE(S) 481) |
| General Antonio López de Santa Anna | Mexican president who became a dictator and overthrew Mexico's constitution (PAGE(S) 482) |
| James K. Polk | Democratic candidate elected president in 1844; from Tennessee; supported American claims for sole ownership of Oregon (PAGE(S) 475) |
| Jim Beckworth | an African American mountain man from Virginia who explored Wyoming's Green River (PAGE(S) 472) |
| John Jacob Astor | American merchant who organized the American Fur Company; his family became one of the wealthiest in America (PAGE(S) 472) |
| Joseph Smith | founder of the Mormon church; killed by a crowd in Illinois (PAGE(S) 506) |
| Brigham Young | led the Mormons to settle in Utah (PAGE(S) 506) |
| Deseret | The town built in Utah by the Mormons trying to create a perfect society; now known as Salt Lake City, Utah (PAGE(S) 506) |
| Marcus Whitman | he and his wife Narcissa went to Oregon in 1836 and built a mission among the Cayuse people (PAGE(S) 473) |
| Mexico | declared its independence from Spain; battled with the United States over Texas (PAGE(S) 481) |
| Oregon Trail | this pioneer trail ran from Independence, Missouri to the Columbia River; was named for its destination (PAGE(S) 474) |
| Santa Fe | in 1610 the Spanish founded this settlement in the desert Southwest (PAGE(S) 491) |
| Texas | The US claimed this territory as part of the Louisiana Purchase; Mexico disagreed and later invited Americans to settle there. (PAGE(S) 481) |
| William Becknell | the first American trader to reach Santa Fe (PAGE(S) 491) |
| Manifest Destiny | belief that the United States should spread out across the entire continent of North America according to God’s wishes (PAGE(S) 474) |
| Tejanos | Mexican citizens living in Texas (PAGE(S) 480) |
| Stephen F. Austin | American that recruited 300 American families to settle in Texas when it was controlled by Mexico (PAGE(S) 481) |
| David G. Burnet | named the first president of the Republic of Texas without an election (PAGE(S) 484) |
| Sam Houston | Commander of Texas army in the Republic of Texas; later elected president of the Lone Star Republic (PAGE(S) 484) |
| Annex | to add a territory to a country’s own territory (PAGE(S) 486) |
| Boomtown | a community experiencing a sudden growth in business or population. (PAGE(S) 503) |
| Californios | Mexicans who lived in California (PAGE(S) 496) |
| Cede | to give up land to another country by treaty (PAGE(S) 497) |
| Emigrant | a person who leaves a country or region to live elsewhere (PAGE(S) 474) |
| Empresario | a person who arranged for the settlement of land in Texas during the 1800s (PAGE(S) 481) |
| forty-niners | people who went to California during the gold rush of 1849 (PAGE(S) 501) |
| joint occupation | the possession and settling of an area shared by two or more countries, such as in Oregon Territory (PAGE(S) 471) |
| mountain man | a frontiersman living in the wilderness, as in the Rocky Mountains; typically made money trapping and selling furs (PAGE(S) 472) |
| Ranchero | Mexican ranch owner in California (PAGE(S) 492) |
| Rancho | huge properties for raising livestock set up by Mexican settlers in California (PAGE(S) 492) |
| Rendezvous | a meeting of the Mountain Men to sell furs and buy supplies (PAGE(S) 472) |
| vigilantes | people who take the law into their own hands (PAGE(S) 504) |
| Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo | peace treaty that ended the Mexican-American War; it gave America land that today is California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. (PAGE(S) 497) |
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